25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-25)This is a noble discourse of Job’s concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering and disposing of all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of his own will, which none dares gainsay or can resist. Take both him and them out of the controversy in which they were so warmly engaged, and they all spoke admirably well; but, in that , we sometimes scarcely know…
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